It not only holds up, in many ways it's better than I remember!
Smooth without the weird input lag I receive on the Steam release.
Four stars, but only to make room for Baldur's Gate 3 which is the Five Star Champ.
The original Myst was the reason I hounded my mother to buy a CD-ROM equipped PC, claiming that it would help me study, improve my grades, etc. Myst was amazing. Riven, doubly so. I even read all three of the books (Book of Ti'ana was incredible) Years later, I really enjoyed Myst III:Exile on the original XBOX. Then came a bunch of weird Myst: Uru nonsense. "Uru...Wait, is this Myst 4? No? Wait, there actually IS a Myst 4? WHEN? Huh? Wha? What's that over there? MYST FIVE???" So I booted up MYST V. As a game in general, this one is red hot garbage. As a MYST game specifically--still red hot garbage. Just bad design. You start in a room with five or six identical doors all leading in different directions. One of these doors happens to have a handle which you can use to open, however it is all but invisible due to crappy design choices. After the walkthrough informed me that one of the doors had a handle, I walked through it, sat through a long scene where a person neatly avoided telling me anything of use or interest, and then proceeded to walk around another room with no apparent exit or interactive objects. Second room, second walkthrough. So to be clear, I have had no opportunities to interact with anything at all, and I'm still stuck to the point that I need a walkthrough--FOR THE SECOND TIME! This is bad level design at its worst (best?) So...second room. I look around for maybe...five minutes. Nothing going on. Some pictures hint at the story that is supposed to be happening around me. I search. And search. And search. Nothing to click on. I'm stuck. Again?? Thanks, GameFAQs! Oh, there was a massive hole in the ground behind one of those big rocks. Neat puzzle! Just put the giant hole in the ground somewhere that the player can't see it because of the crappy interface. Good job, Ubisoft, you've just killed MYST for me. Don't buy this game. If you haven't already, buy RIVEN. If you've already bought RIVEN, just film yourself lighting money on fire and upload it to YouTUBE and you'll probably see better returns.
